Sunday, January 24, 2010

CWT: Contrast Water Therapy

In addition to really liking the indoor track at Genesys, I really like having the hot tub and cold plunge. The hot tub is kept at 104F and the cold plunge at 48F. In talking with the people who routinely use the cold plunge, I learned that serious guys get in there for a chilly 10 minutes. The most I could do the other day was 4.

I think that alternating is the key. From what I can tell, the benefit of contrast water therapy is vasodilation and vasoconstriction: opening and closing your blood vessels.

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